On Fri Jan 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM GMT, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
I would be curious to hear why people are *not* adopting
'debian/latest'?
Why does the majority of Debian packages still use 'master' or
'debian/master' branch as the main development branch?
In my case (not many packages, mostly solo-maintained these days) I just
haven't bothered to put the time in to do it. If there was strong
consensus on the new scheme, such that I could be sure doing the work
might be making lives easier for other people, I would be more inclined
to do it. But (as this sub-thread shows), there isn't.
The DEP-14 has been around since November 2014 and one would think
that DDs would have adopted 'debian/latest' as the default branch and
git head now.
To some extent this is backwards. DEPs are supposed to codify best
practice; DEP-14 suggests something that the majority of packages are
not actually doing. Its status as DRAFT, and the fact it could change at
any time, aren't encouraging etiher.
If a large packaging team adopted it, or the git-buildpackage
maintainers changed their defaults, that would help the numbers.
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